Bernardo Mosqueira

Bernardo Mosqueira (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. He is chief curator at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), in New York; founder and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis, in Rio de Janeiro (since 2015); and director of the Prêmio FOCO ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro (since 2012). Between 2021 and 2023, Mosqueira was the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, where he curated seven exhibitions. Between 2011 and 2014, Mosqueira organized the performance festival Vênus Terra, and between 2011 and 2015 he was one of the curators of Galeria de Arte Ibeu. In 2020, he co-founded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund for artists and art workers in Brazil. In 2017, he received the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’ Arte, an international award for young curators, organized by GAMeC, in Bergamo, Italy. His recent exhibitions include Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths (co-curated with Laura Hakel and Olivia Casa, ISLAA, 2024); Korakrit Arunanondchai: but the words make worlds (Solar dos Abacaxis, 2024); The Precious Life of a Liquid Heart (ISLAA, 2023); Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot (New Museum, 2023); Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente (co-curated with Margot Norton, New Museum, 2023). In 2021, he was part of the curatorial team for the fifth New Museum Triennial “Soft Water Hard Stone.” Mosqueira holds a master's degree in curatorial studies (CCS Bard, 2021). In 2017, he was listed as “One of the 20 most influential curators in Latin America” by Artsy. In 2023, Cultured Magazine highlighted Mosqueira as one of the six “visionary curators” in their annual list of Young Curators. In 2023, he was named by APOLLO Magazine as “one of the 10 most inspirational thinkers living in the US” in their 40 under 40 list. Also, in 2025, Mosqueira was awarded the Vilcek Foundation Prize in Curatorial Work.